› added 4 years ago

320

TIL that Russians eat ice cream in the winter to be warm

Read more edmontonjournal.com

via reddit.com

P1arw TIL the French and Spanish have a 600yr old peace treaty requiring payment of 3 cows each year
oR5EL TIL “Edward Scissorhands” test screenings were so encouraging for 20th Century Fox, the president of the studio considered marketing the film on the scale of “E.T," but decided, “We have to let it find its place. We want to be careful not to hype the movie out of the universe.”
D1EGr TIL that Hitler's dentist, Hugo Johannes Blaschke, who held the rank of SS-Brigadeführer, studied dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
v1yr7 TIL that in Ancient Greece, the famed slingshot mercenaries from Rhodes would often carve taunting messages into their rock projectiles, much like those written on modern-day bombs.
X0nKX TIL Laryy Lessig wrote a book about copyright and how Disney orchestrated lengthening copyright over 90 times in a century and effectively stealing you rights for published works.